Nominal Form of the Verb
The nominal form of the verb is when a
verb is transformed to a simple noun expressing someone or something
acting out the verb. For example, “walk” becomes “walker” and
“teach” becomes “teacher”. In the Elefdar tongue, the verb
takes a suffix -ad to indicate this transformation. In the above
examples, abet (“walk”) becomes abetad (“walker”)
and ceina (“teach”) becomes ceinad (“teacher”).
Note that with a verb such as ceina where it already ends in
-a, Elefdar simply adds a -d
to make the nominal form.
Participial Form of the Verb
The
participial form of the verb is when a verb is transformed to an
adjective expressing action. For example, “I walk” becomes
“I am walking”. The verb in the preceding sentence is am,
and walking is an adjective describing I. In the
Elefdar language, a verb becomes a participle by the addition of the
suffix -a to its simple present tense form. Thus, abet
(“walk”) becomes abeta (“walking”).
If
the verb naturally ends with -a
in its simple present tense, the final vowel is transformed to -o.
Thus, ceina
(“teach”) becomes ceino
(“teaching”).
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